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☆ Opinion | Europe Is About to Drown in the River of the Radical Right
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-07 | by ( Lea Ypi | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Ahead of parliamentary elections widely expected to deliver gains to the hard right, European leaders can barely conceal their anxiety. What is power in contemporary Europe, and how should it be exercised by the European Union? Mr. Macron answered in princely fashion, showing awareness of both the finite nature of every political community — Europe is “mortal,” he said — and its cyclical vulnerability to crisis. Mr. Macron brushed aside the many Europeans who feel the bloc is aloof and inaccessible, describing their disenchantment as a result of “false arguments.” The dismissal was no aberration. This exclusion has changed the contours of the European landscape, paving the way for the radical right.

Persons: Emmanuel Macron, Lorenzo de ’ Medici, Machiavelli, ” Machiavelli, Macron, ”, — Organizations: European Union Locations: Europe, France, Florentine Republic, European

☆ Even some Republicans are nervous about how Mayorkas' impeachment could backfire
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Brent D. Griffiths | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Read previewHomeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is only the second Cabinet secretary to be impeached in American history. The three Republicans who voted to oppose Mayorkas' impeachment have each warned about establishing a new precedent for the action some lawmakers place only below authorizing a war. Still, the vote to impeach Trump for inciting the Capitol riot was the most bipartisan presidential impeachment vote in history. As The New York Times pointed out during Trump's first impeachment, one out of every four presidents have had articles of impeachment written up against them. Gallagher announced his decision just days after bucking his party on the first vote to impeach Mayorkas.

Persons: —, Alejandro Mayorkas, Biden, Mike Gallagher of, Mayorkas, hasn't, Tom McClintock of, Donald Trump, Mike Johnson, Johnson, Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump's, Gallagher, Trump, Trump's, there's, George W, Dennis J, Kucinich, Bush, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Machiavelli, Bryan Metzger, Adam Schiff, Jonathan Turley, Ken Buck, Ken Buck of Colorado Organizations: Service, Business, Republican, Homeland, House Homeland Security, Trump, Capitol, New York Times, Ohio Democrat, Republicans, Georgia Republican, California Democrat, George Washington University Law, Daily Locations: Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin, Tom McClintock of California, Ohio, Georgia, California, Ken Buck of

☆ Opinion | How ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ Presses Up Against the Limits of Empathy
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Maggie Blackhawk | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Mr. Scorsese takes a different tack. Rather than aim for moral development of the audience through empathy for Osage suffering, he focuses on Ernest Burkhart. Ernest is the paradigmatic wolf, just as Mr. DiCaprio has played other wolves throughout his career, on Wall Street and elsewhere. Mr. Burkhart acts on simple, underdeveloped moral principles — and often not exactly out of malice, but self-interest. Mr. Burkhart is driven by base desires — financial gain and other perquisites of power — toward horrific acts against his own family.

Persons: Scorsese, Mollie Burkhart, Ernest Burkhart, Ernest, DiCaprio, Burkhart, Scorsese’s, — Hobbes, Machiavelli, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Arendt, Levinas, Vine Deloria Organizations: United, Osage, American Samoa Locations: United States, Osage Nation of Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Guam, American

☆ A 'godfather of AI' says he's worried about AI eventually manipulating humans
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-11 | by ( Jordan Hart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

George Hinton voiced some alarming concerns about AI in a "60 Minutes" interview. The AI "godfather" says the tech is learning better than humans — and has the potential to do bad. AdvertisementAdvertisementAll that AI is missing now, Hinton said, is the self-awareness to know how to use its intelligence to manipulate humans. They'll know how to do it"And of course, there's the concern of using AI to replace people in jobs, generate fake news, and unintended bias going undetected. He recently expressed regret for his role in advancing AI, but said on "60 Minutes" he had no regrets for the good it can do.

Persons: George Hinton, Hinton, —, Geoffrey Hinton, Turing, they'll, Machiavelli, Hinton didn't, godfathers Organizations: Service, Google

☆ Opinion | People Are More Generous Than You May Think
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( David Brooks | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Are human beings fundamentally good or fundamentally bad? Are people mostly generous, or are they mostly selfish? Over the centuries, many of our leading lights have taken the view that people are basically selfish. On average, the participants spent more than $6,400 of it to benefit others, including almost $1,700 on donations to charity. Sounds pretty generous to me.

Persons: Machiavelli, Gordon Tullock, Gene, Richard Dawkins, “, Ryan J, Dwyer, William J, Brady, Elizabeth W, Dunn, Chris Anderson Organizations: TED

☆ Lessons on Leadership From a Barbarian King
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Jamie Kreiner | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Some five million of Theoderic’s subjects in Italy were Romans. Around 100,000 of them were Goths, most of whom had long ago adopted many elements of Roman culture. They drank Roman wine, used Roman tableware and spoke some Latin. Theoderic treated Goths and Romans as parallel populations who owed different things to the kingdom and required different forms of support. Today, American and European writers wonder if there are any lessons for our quagmires of multiculturalism.

Persons: Theoderic, Wiemer, wonk, skimpily, Machiavelli Organizations: Christian Locations: Italy

☆ (foto, video) Recomandări #diez. Ce să citești, să vizionezi și să urmărești dacă la toamnă începi să înveți relații internaționale
▼ + stars: | 2018-08-09 | by ( Onixmedia Srl | ) diez.md time to read: +5 min

Astăzi venim cu un set de sfaturi utile pentru cei care au fost admiși la „Relații Internaționale”. Lista recomandărilor, de această dată, a întocmit-o Mihai Clapaniuc, absolvent al FRIȘPA, USM și diplomat în cadrul Ministerului Afacerilor Externe și Integrării Europene. Așadar, dacă la toamnă începi să înveți „Relații Internaționale”, luna aceasta fă-ți timp pentru următoarele:#Ce să citeștiIndependent Diplomat – Carne Ross(O carte despre decepția unui diplomat britanic în profesia sa. Mi-au părut faine unele impresii ale lui expuse în această carte)Diplomația – Henry Kissinger(Carte de căpătâi pentru studenții de la Relații Internaționale. Contează să ai inițiativă și insistență în a căuta.”*Poziția exprimată în acest articol reprezintă opinii și aprecieri personale și nicidecum poziția oficială a instituției în care activează autorul recomandărilor

Persons: Mihai, Ross, Tom Fletcher, Fletcher, Niccolo Machiavelli, Vasile Alecsandri, Alecsandri, Henry Kissinger, Charlie Wilson’s Organizations: Externe, Integrării Europene, Internaționale, ONU, Bridge, BBC Locations: britanic, Irak, Rwanda, Teheran, britanică, norvegian, Republicii Moldova, SUA, Bruxelles, Chișinău

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